Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-07-20

one that amt real busy; but l can't
tell how long it will last as 1 may have
to saddle up and GO for the doctor
at any minute
A despatch from Nashville, Tenn,
SAYS: 4 most remarkable occurrence
followed negro funeral at Mount
Pleasant, about sixty miles south Of
Nashville, to-day, nine negroes being
killed by a single stroke of lightning
The party had scarcely left the grave
when q most severe thunder aud rain
storm burst upon them All imme-
diately ran for trees scattered about
the graveyard. Scarcely had the nine
negroes reached the shelter of an i'm
mense oak when a terrific thun-
der cloud burst aud the tree was
struck The whole party of nine
tumbled down together and died in
stantly.
Three others, who were sheltered
under another tree, saw the party
killed, but were themselves uninjured.
1t was noticed that the part of each
body nearest the tree WAS SCARED
and their clothes torn. The most in
tense excitement prevailed there all
the evening and the wailing and
moaning OF the frightened negroes
were heart-rending.
Joseph Garrison of Harley, Idaho.
has just been notified frcm Washing
ton that his claim for pension was al
lowed He claimed back pension since
lS4S. By temporarily waiving a heav-
Ter claim for entire disability resulting
from q wound on the head inflicted by
a boulder thrown from the roof of n
house at the stOrming of the city of
Mexico, he has heen allowed S12 per
Inonth with 6 PEI vent. interest per
annum since lS4S, a period of thirty
niue years Having served in the war
of the Rebellion as a Lieutenant in
the Second California Cavalry. he
expects TO etquite an additional sum.
The allowance TO him so ia 7 will secure
him over Sic, 900, and when his other
claims for increased pension are adiu- |
dlcated he expects to receive S15, 900, !
to S2O,O0O more.
Recently al East Atcb;son, Miss
ourl, the river has washed away tifty
acres. The school house which q |
month ago stood quarter of mile
from the uyer bank, was moved east,
and the ground Oh which it stood is
now IN the river. The bank at that
point Is perpendicular and thirty feet
high The river had risen and the high
winds drove the current against
he bank with great violence, wash
ng out the bed Of quick sand, which
les below stratum of clay, and, thus
sections of earth as large
Is block of buildings breaks loose
md is swallowed up by the current.
III the residents of that part of the
own have been forced to hastily re {
move their houses or abandon them. {
i long, lank West Virginian named
brown presented himself at the pen
ION Bureau IN Washington this week
o furnish evidence in a claim pending
efore the office. 1t was learned upon
lquIry that his mother had borne
hlrty three children in all. Twenty
this number were boys, sixteen of
hom had served IN the union army.
wo We're killed The other fourteen
lrvlve- Each of them draws a pen
on from the government for dlsabiI
les received while in service. The
cath of the two boys entities the
lother to a pension also General s
lack says the files of the Office fail !
, show another record where the J
.xteen sons of one father and mother
srved as soldiers in the late war.
Berlin, July 15.-Alfred krupp, the
reat German gun manufacturer
nd metal founder, who died yester
ay at his villa near Esen, in Rhenish .
russia, at the age Of seventy-fve,
nay fairly be considered to have
0rmed one of that band OF Teuton =
lants who have built up the present
owerful German Empire If Bismarck
lrected the policy of it. construction :
nd Moltke the glorious course of its )
rmies, 1t was Krupp to whom the -
'atherland was indebted for that
magnificent artillery which was the
factor in every one of its vic
Ories.
Recently little 2-year old daugh-
er OF John Fair, of Carroll town
hlp, Perry county, WAS caught up in
be horns of q COW and thrown vio-
entity against post bruising her side
nd back badly. She has been unfcr-
unate during the short period of her
fe. Not long since she approached
ne farm dog while it was eating and
be animal bit her in the face lacera-
ing the flesh frightfully. But she has
urvived all the accidents thus far.
A despatch from Roam. Ind, saws
hat on Wednesday, 1.-The town was
by a cloud of insects, re-
mlllers, so dense that lights
ad to be lighted The pests covered
verythlng, business was suspended
Or time, and bonfires were built.
Thlch drew the insects, and their bod
rs were soon piled up in great heaps
round earh fire"
The Boston Post saws that Mr.
'owderly's idea of a despotism estsb-
shed by the multitude over the in
ividual, and exercised by few chief
Iespots, has been tested and has prov
n n failure Nothing can be more
ertain than that the American peo-
lie Will not allow such system to op-
ain permanent foothold in this
ountry-
Grenhut, the Chicago socialist, SAYS =
he friends have abandoned hope for
new trial for the anarchists.
About twenty-five persons will be
ent through the state of Illinois 10
ret signatures to petitions tothe gov
'rnor to commute the sentence to
ife Imprisonment.
The leading hotel proprietors at
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